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Looks like there may not even be a full-size flying replica - a chap in the USA built a 7/10 scale one, and there's a few others at various scales - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Langhurst - but no full-size ones. Let's get the plans for Glenderg.......

Only two planes left - neither is anywhere near flying - now or ever again - replicas would be the only way. They used Miles Magisters in the Battle of Britain film. Stuka production ended before the war finished and numbers were well down by the end, anyway. Rudel's book - http://www.jrbooksonline.com/PDF_Books/Stuka%20Pilot%20-%20Hans%20Ulrich%20Rudel.pdf - in a big pdf, although, it's not a particularly long book - I do recommend it to anybody interested in this sort of thing, though.

The Stuka still has a bad press in the UK, but it was Rudel's plane of choice, right to the end. He was shot down 32 times, but never by another aircraft, always ground fire. He believed that a Stuka would always get you back. There are some astonishing pictures of damaged aircraft that still flew back home.

Great stuff. Rudel's book, Stuka Pilot, is well worth hunting down. The only book that I've ever read in one go. I borrowed it from the local library, just on the off-chance that it might be interesting - and was up until four in the morning to finish it. If it was fiction, it would be silly. I wrote to the English publisher and he sent me the last copy that he had in his garage at home. It's out on loan at the moment, but I must read it again. They do turn up regularly enough, though. There is also a photographic book about him by Gunther Just which contains some crazy pictures.

That's a fine bit of land there.

If it's yellow, heirflick'll like it.

I think there were 37 - 141 to 177 - a typo, I would suspect....?

Even works for me...

Don't forget the antimacassars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1qlV7TNhXo etc...

Right, I just wondered after the talk of different ventilation arrangements.

Was there any visible difference in the underfloor equipment between the Standards and the Super Standard/First Class carriages?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-28559950 .....

It was - .

A fatality on the track near Athy today - .

Anything they can do...... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-23944852

Take it in easy stages.....

I'll set 'em up, you knock 'em down.....

8101 had a hot box this morning....

30 years old today.

If you've got a spare hour and a half, then watch this - it's almost like a documentary about that school, if only my year there had had the same ending.... [video=youtube;PmoHv8Mf_-o]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmoHv8Mf_-o

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/2014/07/trains-regain-their-prestige-its-time-trip-through-their-chequered-past - via Irish Rail's twitter.

None of those - but I did go to one where the good lads got to march around with Lee-Enfields in the dinner hour. We discovered that the place where they were kept, under the stage, also housed a Bren-gun and a three-inch mortar.

The Flower-Class corvette turns up now and then, if you have space for it... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v94/markwalters/Corvettes/macha1.jpg